Excerpt from The New York State Military Census and Inventory: A Report to Hon. Charles S. Whitman, Governor of the State of New York; 1917 The task of persuading men and women to answer the eighty odd questions within the space of fifteen days was alone a difficult and unprecedented one. But in the case of New York State the city of New York presented problems not existing in any other State in the Union. The port of New York with its transitory population presented a unique problem; the city of New York, with its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants who neither speak nor write the English language was another prob lem, not to the same extent existant elsewhere. The cities, towns and villages of the State presented less difficult, but quite differ ent problems, requiring a general plan of organization sufficiently flexible to admit of a census taking that should work in harmony with the conditions in New York city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.